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My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Narrative is the beginning of recovery.

Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species on the journey and transformation of one singular person so far outside of what we expect they can do.

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.

Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry.

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as "freedom.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

The Forbidden Room and Seances are related. Both of them are made up of lost film matter adapted through the medium of me and Evan, but the way they present themselves is totally different. One of them is this big Russian nesting doll of movie narratives and the other is much shorter experience on the internet.

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations are narrative films, and that's ultimately where I see myself going next.

The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives.

The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.